Subject: Re: increasing a process's max data size
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@jkmrc.uq.edu.au>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/05/2003 09:08:54
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Thus spake Ray Phillips ("RP> ") sometime Today...
RP> This change does allow squid to use more memory and everything is
RP> fine, except that is, when it's using more than 256 MB RAM and I send
RP> it a signal such as
RP>
RP> # squid -k reconfigure
1. Is anyone seeing this on any other platform?
RP> in which case the machine crashes and has to be power cycled. If
RP> squid is using less than 256 MB sending it a signal causes no
RP> problems, so I've obviously missed something important. Could you
RP> tell me what, please?
2. D'ya think this more accurately reflects on the engineering of
squid? It sounds like either you're maintaining an in-core Cache
Of Unusual Size, or there's a SERIOUS leak and/or abuse of
available memory.
RP> I've tried this on a NetBSD/i386 machine and found the same problem
RP> exists there.
RP> Ray
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